Designer Desire: Pati

Mosaic of vintage Pati illustrations

Last week, we introduced you to the work of US illustrator, Pati. We have a couple of his (or her) vintage framed prints for sale.

As you can guess, even though we found many, many examples of their artwork, we couldn’t find ANYTHING about the artist. Hence the reason that we don’t even know if Pati is a man or a woman, so no artist’s portrait this week!

Their work was distributed by Soovia Janis Inc. in the 1960s and 70s, along with a couple of other artists doing similar illustrations; Margot Johnson and Jacque. Perhaps we’ll feature them some time in the future.

They include food and cocktail recipes, star signs and the like… all in a colourful, folksy, quirky style.

Recipes in the frame

Vintage Pati recipe prints distributed by Soovia Janis Inc. | H is for Home

We’ve got three of these original 1960s recipe artworks heading for the web shop this week. Aren’t they fabulous?

Vintage 'Gimlet' recipe print by Pati distributed by Soovia Janis Inc. | H is for Home

Each one has a recipe for a cocktail or dessert incorporated into a wonderful hand-decorated art illustration.

Vintage 'Strawberry Bombe' recipe print distributed by Pati for Soovia Janis Inc. | H is for Home

They’re the work of ‘Pati’ who produced them for Soovia Janis Inc of New York. They’re just three of a very large series of works. You’d do very well to track them all down. If you’re a complete-ist who can’t stand not having an entire set of something, tread carefully before you embark on collecting these… it might be a life-long quest!

Vintage 'Stinger' recipe print by Pati distributed by Soovia Janis Inc. | H is for Home

It might be worth it though as they’re so gorgeous. Imagine a wall full of these – what a riot of colour and swirls. Most people will make do with a smaller collection – or a single picture for that perfect spot in the kitchen, bar or dining area. Your choice might come down to which colour design suited your existing décor… or a favourite cocktail maybe. In fact, a whole row of cocktail recipes along a bar would look great… no stop, now we’re mentally making a collection. They’re supposed to be for sale. We haven’t got a bar anyway!

Label on the reverse of a vintage Pati recipe print | H is for Home

Each has their original painted wooden frames and labels to reverse – and measure 42cm x 22cm. They’ll be listed in the web shop soon. However, if you want first dibs as a reader of our blog, just send us a message. They’re £55 each or £140 for the three.